Service Center Supervisor

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Broussard, LA

Supervises day-to-day operations at a service center, managing hourly workers in the refurbishment of equipment, developing production plans, ensuring customer satisfaction, and overseeing safety and quality standards. Responsible for staff training and development, and implementing process improvements like Lean Manufacturing.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manages shop operations in accordance with SPM documented procedures, specifications, and customer requirements to ensure all products and services meet customer demands.
  2. Develops daily production plan to ensure output targets are achieved and customer deadlines are met.
  3. Communicates with customers daily to receive and deliver customer assets, meeting local customers deadlines and interpret customer requests.
  4. Monitors and improves safety on the shop floor; eliminate any unsafe operations and ensure a safe and clean product environment.
  5. Responsible for training and development of staff, time keeping, estimating personnel needs, assigning work, meeting completion dates, and ensuring consistent application of organizational needs.

Skills

Required

  • Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
  • Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes; ability to collect and synthesize data from a variety of stakeholders and sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion, goal, or judgment.
  • Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.
  • Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
  • Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
  • Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
  • Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
  • High school diploma and 2+ years of aftermarket and/or workshop experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Have a mechanical aptitude.
  • Thorough working knowledge of aftermarket operations, equipment, and processes.

Nice to have

  • Prior supervisory experience.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft office products.
  • Must be willing to work outside of normal work hours including overtime and alternate shifts.

What the JD emphasized

  • customer requirements
  • customer deadlines
  • safety on the shop floor
  • Quality Standards
  • Lean Manufacturing
  • training and development of staff